I see the snow fall today as an unexpected gift for my blog’s first birthday. Today last year, December 1, 2011, I started building my bilingual blog at maingocchau.com to share my journey in America. Time flew so fast. 365 days went by and I have had many readers who said they have followed my blog. THANK YOU so much for loving maingocchau.com. I have done my best to improve my blog to make it more catchy and informative, and I welcome any comment to help me make it better. You know, one of the first things I want to do whenever I have time is to share so enjoyable and unforgettable experiences of mine to everyone on this site. I wish I always have more time for my blog because there are still so many stories untold.

Now I’m sitting in my room on a small beige-colored wooden table right next to the opened window, blogging and enjoying the snow falling outside. I let the window stay open because I want to enjoy the shivering cold brought by the snowing. The snowing is growing thicker.

For the last two weeks, I’ve been too busy to update the weather forecast, so I didn’t know the snowing until I got up in the middle of this morning and opened my window. I can’t believe in my eyes. It’s so fantastic and more fantastic especially when today is the first-year anniversary of maingocchau.com. The falling snow is blanketing outside, not too much but is enough for me to get excited.

It is the first snowing in my current town and make me just want to stay put at the end of this semester. No words can express my love for snow. It isn’t the first snow I ever see but it is the first now I see in Quincy, which is nicknamed as a town of American presidents. The weather forecast says the snowing will last until tomorrow and next week, the weather is expected to be milder with the temperature ranging from 2 to 13 degrees Celsius.

Though it is so cold (-2 degrees Celsius), I couldn’t stop myself running outside to enjoy the snow flake falling. Hope you enjoy it with me:

Everything outside is so beautiful.

I really like this scene like in the forest.

This photo is taken from the window next to the stairways.

There is a smaill park behind my house.

The snow is just right the window. Why don’t I make a snowman for a friend at my newspaper in Vietnam?

The line between my landlord house’s garden and the neighbor’s.

Just yesterday, my landlady reminded me to harvest my boy chok but I was too busy to do it. Now the snow covers it,

The road right next to the house.

This man is jogging in the snow.

The road looks quite, only this car.

The houses across the street.

The snow is blanketing the front garden.

The front garden, one of my favorite places.

It is the time for you to sleep. Sleep well leaves!

I love this little house right down the garden looking up to my room.

The snow is whitening my landlord’s car.

I couldn’t ask my friend to take my photo on the first snow in Winter 2012. Photo by Erin Greene

The early snow in Winter 2012 right in front of Emerson College. It was so late but I must take some photos.

I need to get back to work now. Thank you SNOW for giving me more inspiration, more energy and more joy to work on the final essay and the final feature. Only 12 hours left before the deadline.